Tag: Commentary

Do you have a love/hate relationship with your home Wi-Fi network? One reason might be that the network is unable to reach every spot you want it to--the sunny patio, the upstairs bedroom, or the kitchen, perhaps. Now, new routers and adapters labeled "Pre-N" or "MIMO" promise to address the dreaded dead-spot dilemma while doubling...

Despite security fears, the market for wireless Lan gear will roughly double in value and triple in unit shipments by 2009, largely thanks to next-generation technology delivering higher throughput, longer range and greater capacity. Via [vnunet.com]

There was dissension in the ranks over the forthcoming mobile variant of the WiMAX 802.16e wireless access standard at this year's 3GSM World Congress. Via [electronicsweekly.com]

Lower prices and killer apps such as voice-over-WLAN (VoWLAN) are the main reasons wireless networks are proliferating in enterprises. VoWLANs, for instance can save enterprises loads of money while enabling mobile telephony throughout a facility. Via [informationweek.mobilepipeline.com]

When Alison Fillmore decided to move to Chatham and start her website graphic design business, Vervaine, she worried that keeping in touch with clients in Boston would be difficult and that she would be tied to her desk. Via [boston.com]

Industry standards play a critical role in R&D, product development and marketing initiatives which in turn help organizations meet their business objectives. Via [scmagazine.com]

As cellular carriers provide faster data services and Wi-Fi hot-spots pop up in coffee shops and hotels, businesses are increasingly providing mobile employees with tools to take advantage of wireless data services outside the workplace. But widespread adoption is still down the road because of incompatible standards, high costs, and overhyped data speeds. Via [informationweek.com]...

Advocates of Big Broadband took their case against municipal Wi-Fi public on Thursday with a new report from the New Millenium Research Council. Via [eweek.com]

To prove their tech savviness, governments of cities such as Philadelphia and New York have decided, over the past year or so, to start providing wireless broadband services. Philadelphia, for one, is looking to seed all of its 135 square miles with Wi-Fi (wireles fidelity) hot spots. The project, to be funded with public funds,...

People living in a wired culture can get tense if they have to unplug. That's why California and Michigan are making high-speed Internet access available in recreation areas -- a move that would seem to run counter to the whole point of recreation. Via [boston.com]

To hear some of its more enthusiastic proponents you might conclude that WiMax, an emerging wireless-broadband technology, was about to take over the world. WiMax is akin to a long-range version of the popular Wi-Fi technology that allows computers close to a small base-station to surf the internet without wires. Whereas Wi-Fi's range is limited...

Mobile operator mmO2 has been sorting out where it will be setting out its stall for the alphabet soup of connectivity of the future. Via [networks.silicon.com]

Wireless connectivity products are springing up in Singapore and across key countries in the Asia-Pacific, as demand is fuelled by a surge in the number of notebook computer users and the need to connect to the Internet and corporate intranets wirelessly. Via [it.asia1.com.sg]

Wi-Fi now rules the roost, according to a new research report concluding that wireless technology has gained a slight edge over Ethernet cables in home networks. Via [news.com.com]

Telecommunications used to be a closed game, from the copper and fibre that carried the messages, to the phones themselves. Now, openness reigns in the world of wires. Networks must interconnect with those of competitors, and users can plug in their own devices as they will. One result of this openness has been a lot...